Literacy Action Plan

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Action Plans

Goal #1 – Reading and Writing to Learn

  1. Create Resource Packet (Binder and wiki resource)
    • Each Skill addressed (6 skills)
    • Resources
    • Explanations of the skills
    • Research to back things up
    • Basic literacy information (article links)
    • Accountability sheets
    • Assign team members to each skill to present to faculty at a later date
    • Set faculty goals to implement in the classroom
    • Focus on Cornell Notetaking
    • Year 2 – add podcasts, tutorials, additional resources to the wiki

Goal #2 – Writing Weekly

  1. Resource folders – for all students in every class
    • Rubrics, editing marks, citing resources etc.
    • Public displays of student work focuses on continuity and participation
    • Writing for the mile-a-minute reading program
    • All teachers use open-ended questions each week
      1. Bellringers, exit slips, entrance slips, open-ended test questions
      2. At least one paragraph (8 sentences)

Goal #3 – Conducting Research
  1. Citing sources
    • All teachers require the same procedures
    • These will be in student resource folders
    • Common scoring rubric
    • Research across the curriculum
    • Resource of idea book in the media center, workroom and on the wiki

Goal #4 – Rigor
  1. More opportunities that require students to analyze and discuss what they read
    • Blogs, wikis, forums
    • Using word processing
    • Podcasting – character sketches instead of book reports
    • fakebook

Goal 5# - Reading 25 books
  1. Summer reading list
    • Have three choices available
    • Grant money for purchases for those who can’t afford
    • Teachers have lessons plans set up for these books when school begins
    • Mile-a-minute
      • Large map of world in cafeteria to show push pin locations
      • Large poster for “passport” stamps (art department)
      • SEEDS grant for materials
      • Nook for winner
      • smaller prizer
      • acclaim for students meeting certain log goals
      • art from art department (passports)

  1. Path of locations throughout the school for visitors to follow our progression
  2. Accountability – have students write a brief summary of what they read and turn it in during homeroom
  3. Log sheets run through homeroom
  4. Wiki with google earth links and pushpins of areas
i. Ex. math – Rome – finding triangles in architecture
  1. Reading goal for middle school 12 books per student
    1. The majority covered in language classes
    2. Each other curricular area chooses a book to either assign or read-a-loud to students during the year
i. Ex. math – Tesseract